Stages of Early Childhood Communication Development

Developmental milestones (4-6 Months)

Brings hands or toys to mouth
Starts to sit up in cradle position

Communication (0-3 Months)

Cries to express displeasure, Vegetative sounds, Quiets when a voice is heard

What is Dietic Gaze? When does it occur?

Looks intently at parents
0-3 months

When does Cooing appear?

Occurs at 4 weeks

Communication Characteristics (4-6 Months)

Giggles and laughs,
Responds to facial expressions,
Looks at object of interest and follows it with eyes,
Vocalizes during play,
Vocalizes different vowel sounds,
some VC/CV combinations (um ag da)

Developmental milestones (6-9 Months)

Holds head up when sitting upright

What type of Play does a baby do? (6-9 Months)

Relational: Using objects together in simple ways (putting toys together)

Communication characteristics (9-12 Months)

Reaches for objects,
Points, waves, or gives objects,
Imitates gestures for social interactions,
like blowing kisses or playing peek-a-boo,
Echolalia,
Jargon,
Says one or two words (mama, dada, hi, bye)

Swallowing characteristics (9-12 Months)

Feeds self with fingers,
Holds bottle/sippy cup,
Rotary chewing (Chews on both sides of mouth)

When does the Locutionary Stage begin? What is the central idea?

12-18 months, use of words to express intentions

Communication Characteristics (12-18 Months)

Points to make requests, comment, or get information,
Shakes head for 'no' and nods head for 'yes',
Uses a combination of long strings of sounds,
syllables, and real words with speech-like intonation

Swallowing Characteristics (12-18 Months)

Feeds self with utensils/fingers

What type of Play (12-18 Months)

Functional play: Starts using objects for their intended purpose

Communication characteristics (18-24 Months)

Uses and understands at least 50 words,
Puts two or more words together 'more water',
Follows two-step directions,
Uses words to ask for help,
Uses pronouns

Swallowing characteristics (18-24 Months)

Eats without spilling

Developmental milestones (18-24 Months)

Sits without support

What type of Play (18-24 Months)

Symbolic Play: Child gives objects identities other than intended purpose (pretending toy food is hot),
Combination single play schemes (drinks from cup and then feeds self with spoon)

Communication characteristics (2-3 Years)

Uses word combinations often,
repeats some words and phrases (I want - I want juice),
Tries to get attention by saying 'look at me!',
Asks why and how, Forms early stories,
Correctly produces: p,d,m,h,w,d,and n,
Correctly produces most vowels in words,
Uses -ing verbs,
Adds -ed to the end of words

Swallowing characteristics (2-3 Years)

Chews all food textures without gagging/choking

What type of Play (2-21/2)

Social Play begins, 2-2 1/2 years: Onlooker/spectator: child watches others play,

What type of Play (21/2-3)

Social play: 2 ½ - 3 years: Parallel play: child plays with toys similar to those near him/her, but doesn't interact

Communication characteristics (3-4 Years)

3 years: vocab triples to 900-1000 words,
Word comparisons (-er),
Locative words,
Articles,
Correctly produces t,k,g,f,y, and -ing words,
Says all the syllables in a word,
Child mostly intelligible by age 4,
Says all sounds in a consonant cluster with two consonants (tw in tweet)

What type of Play (3-4 Years)

Associative play: Child plays with others. No rules agreed upon.

Communication characteristics (4-5 Years)

Produces grammatically correct sentences,
longer and more complex, Irregular plural forms (feet, men),
Time words (yesterday, today),
Follows simple directions to play a game,
Can usually write their own name,
Produces most consonants correctly

What type of Play (4-5 Years)

Cooperative Play: Plays with others bound by rules and roles

What is Prelinguistic Milieu Training?

Increase frequency of communication attempts through establishing routines to serve as the context

What are three Standardized Articulation Assessments? What are the age ranges?

Arizona Articulation and Phonology Scale, Fourth Revision
(1 1/2 - 21)

Clinical Assessment of Articulation and Phonology (2 1/2 -11)

Goldman Fristoe (2-22)

What is the name of 4 standardized Language assessment? Age ranges?

1. PLS 5 (0-7)
2. Rossetti Infant-toddler language scale (0-3)
3. Receptive-expressive emergent language test
4. Transdisciplinary Play-Based Assessment (0-6 years)

When is the perlocutionary stage?

0-6 months

Oral reflexes at birth

Rooting, Suck, Tongue Thrust, Phasic-bite (0-15 months)

Feeding characteristics (0-3 Months)

Turns head towards nipple and opens mouth, Sucks and swallows

When is the Perlocutionary Stage, what is its definining characteristic?

0-6 months, communication based primarily on caregiver's interpretation of infants' behavior

Swallowing Characteristics (4-6 Months)

Brings hands to breast/bottle

Play Milestones (4-6 Months)

Solitary Play (0-2 years),
Exploratory play: exploring physical properties from cup (mouthing/banging)

When is Illocutionary Stage and what is its major characteristic

6-12 months, Transition into conventional language

Communication Characteristic (6-9 Months)

Looks at you when you call their name,
Understands when you say 'no',
Babbling,
Vocal play,
Recognizes some names and objects,
Pushes away unwanted objects

Swallowing Characteristics (6-9 Months)

Begin to feed themselves,
Starts to drink from a cup, Moves food around mouth using tongue,
Tries to hold spoon